One of the Zydeco Nation’s mainstay figures and unsung mentors, Joseph Wilfred Chavis died on Friday, May 7, 2010 at the age of 65 in Houston, Texas. Wilfred Chevis was born in Church Point, Louisiana...
Before zydeco had a name, Creole families gathered at house dances called “la la” — accordion, fiddle and rubboard filling a front room on a Saturday night.
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